TESOL Subject Guide

Eric Bradley

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Library Catalog Search for TESOL
- A subject search for "English language Study and teaching Foreign speakers" and "English language Textbooks for foreign speakers" in the CU Library Catalog. Includes over 60 eBooks.

TESOL Quarterly
- Miller Library has full text online access to TESOL Quarterly from 2002 to the current issue, and has from 1967 (vol. 1) to 2006 on software in house. It is indexed in Education Abstracts from 1982 to the current issue. To limit searching to TESOL Quarterly, type in “TESOL Quarterly” in the first search box then select “Source Phrase” beside it. If you are a distance education student and want a TESOL Quarterly article we hold, please contact us and we can print and email the article to you.
CETESOL Newsletter
- The Christian English Language Educators Association is an international association for Christians in TESOL. Michael Pasquale is the current president. The CETESOL Newsletter provides TESOL related articles from a Christian worldview perspective.
World Englishes - WE
TESL-EJ
- TESL-EJ began as the brainchild of a group of scholars who saw the need for a freely-distributed electronic academic journal. It has grown to become an internationally- recognized source of ESL and EFL information for people in scores of countries.

ERIC
- The ERIC (Educational Resources Information Center) database is sponsored by the U.S. Department of Education to provide extensive access to educational-related literature. In addition, ERIC provides coverage of conferences, meetings, government documents, theses, dissertations, reports, audiovisual media, bibliographies, directories, books and monographs. This database can also be accessed through CSA and FirstSearch.
Linguistics and Language Behavior Abstracts (CSA)
- Excellent resource for linguistics. Covers all aspects of the study of language including phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax and semantics. Also provides wide coverage in descriptive, historical, comparative, theoretical and geographical linguistics.
Project Muse
- Provides online, worldwide, institutional subscription access to the full-text of about 200 scholarly journals in the arts and humanities, social sciences, and mathematics (including American Speech, Language, and Linguistic Inquiry). See Journal Titles list.
Education Abstracts (First Search)
- Abstracts of leading education journals, including many items relevant to TESOL studies.

CQ Researcher
- CQ Researcher offers in-depth, non-biased coverage of today's most important issues. Each report is on a single topic—more than 12,000 words of text and extensive bibliographies.
Facts on File Issues and Controversies
- Explores more than 800 hot topics in business, politics, government, education, and popular culture.
Gale Powersearch
- General database with broad collection of newspapers, magazines, academic journals, and trade publications from 1980 to present. Includes entries from encyclopedias, specialized reference sources, and radio and television transcripts.
Opposing Viewpoints (Gale)
- Overviews, full-text articles, statistics, and resources on social issues. Includes reference works and radio and television transcripts.
Wilson Select Plus (First Search)
- Completely full-text general interdisciplinary database with a wide collection of academic journals, trade publications, and magazines.

RefWorks
- A personal database that allows you to download references from online databases and then formats them for use in bibliographies and research papers. You will need to create an individual account the first time you use this service. Click here for Help Using RefWorks.
Ulrich's Periodical Directory
- Online guide to information about periodicals. Use this to find out if a periodical is peer reviewed (called refereed in this database).